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Obama is boosting Biden’s 2016 prospects

Whether by design or not, Obama is a willing abettor of the Biden-for-president speculation. In announcing the fiscal-cliff agreement, he went out of the way to refer to Biden as his “extraordinary” vice president. Obama hasn’t always been so effusive in his praise of his running mate, sometimes expressing chagrin (if not embarrassment) at Biden’s verbal slips. But just assigning the veep to several high-profile jobs after the election suggests he wants to raise the Biden profile.

Perhaps the president is sending a message to Hillary Clinton that he will not automatically back her if she decides to run in 2016. With Biden in the field, Obama has a ready excuse as to why he can’t endorse the early front-runner. To be sure, Clinton has been a loyal secretary of state. But Biden’s loyalty has been second to none, and Clinton was Obama’s strongest and bitterest rival for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.

Moreover, her recent health problems might compromise her presidential prospects. Though younger than Biden, she still would be 69 shortly before Election Day 2016. Obama and Biden will meet privately with Clinton in the Oval Office on Monday. While the agenda was not made public, given the current Biden publicity surge both sides are likely to be taking political as well as foreign policy notes.

This is the point where I would usually laugh hysterically at the prospect of such a buffoon getting elected President, but unfortunately I’ve just been through 2008 and 2012 and I’m not laughing about anything anymore…

If the American people are so stupid as to vote that buffoon into the White House on his own gas, then this country is lost.

Warner Todd Huston on January 14, 2013 at 9:42 PM

Heh…Wethal is talking about health problems. Yeah…mental health. Biden is an imbecile, and even the Democrats know it. He ran for President twice and didn’t get enough votes in two campaigns to fill the University of Delaware football stadium…once.

The very notion of this greasy, racist, plagiarizing, hair-plugged twit running a successful Presidential campaign is inconceivable. In fact, I assume that every single media reference suggesting the possibility is just part of the 24/7 media misinformation campaign of the Democrats.

Agreed. I honestly think Biden would win. The media will cover for him just as they did Obama and demonize the Republican. Do you think the “entitled” masses are going to think about anything other than all the free stuff? Along with the liberal “elite”, they’ve got the numbers. I hope I’m wrong, but this (language warning) is the way I have felt since the day after the election.

Bill Clinton thinks he’s soooo smart, but if he ever thought he could depend on Barry’s returning the helping hand Bill lent in the last election by supporting the wife in 2016, he’s the most gullible idiot in the history of politics.

In fact, Ed Klein has reported that Clinton asked for “his” people to be installed at the DNC and that Barry has already stiffed him on their agreement by sticking with political genius DWS.